Getting 2 yo to eat

I know this is the age old question but basically I’m wanting to know if the whole “eat what’s on ur plate or don’t eat” is going to be the only affective method...I can’t stand the idea of her going to bed hungry, but dinner time is a nightmare and she will NOT try new things. She basically only eats PBandJ, or bananas, or yogurt, or applesauce, and chicken nuggets. Literally this is all she will eat (obviously she will eat breakfast foods like pancakes or oatmeal). This struggle has been going on for a long while now and me and my husband have had numerous arguments over it. He seems to think the only thing that’s going to work is letting her go hungry. Am I goin to have to resort to this?

If I offer her a “safe food” along with our meal, she will not even consider trying the meal. If I only offer the meal, she throws a fit and screams and cries until she gets a “safe food” (one of the choices above). Sometimes it turns into a full on tantrum where she can’t even catch her composure.

I usually offer anything we’re having, I set it on her tray and let her do her thing because me trying to feed it to her is even worse of a nightmare. But she usually resorts to moving it around a few times and then crying because she doesn’t want it.

I know she sounds like a holy terror but I swear the meal thing is the only time I have to deal with tantrums or fits.

This has been going on for almost a year now so I have given her plenty of opportunities to try thing on her own and I don’t force her to eat it.